On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 01:47:20AM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 05:31:09PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > okay. when a floppy drive is accessed, and there happens not to be a
> > floppy in the drive, you get an error "directory does not exist".
> >
> > then you put a floppy _in_ the drive.... and access it .... and it
> > _still_ says "directory does not exist".
> >
> > 30 seconds _later_ is a different story: access is granted.
> >
> > ... what gives???
>
> Is this really an autofs bug, or are you complaining about the kernel not
> notifying autofs somehow? (In the latter case, the bug should be reassigned
> to a kernel package.)
i found out what the problem is: the auto-timeout field in the autofs.h
linux kernel header file is set to a ridiculously long time period
of 60 (sixty) seconds.
from a useability perspective, a minute is an awfully long time for a
floppy drive to just... "disappear".
i have had to specially compile up a version of the debian kernel
specifically with this timeout period reduced - hardcoded - to five
seconds.
now everything works as expected.
l.
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